Operating System Questions
*** Important note about running DD on Windows Vista ***
Options for running the DD on a Mac.
Will the DD run on a Mac?
Running Draft Dominator on a Mac with VirtualPC
Running the Draft Dominator on the newer Intel Macs
Running the VBD Spreadsheet on a Mac

General Questions
Tips for using the Draft Dominator on Draft Day.
Importing your own ADP
Opening your league files from last year
Using different projections for different leagues
When to use the VBD Import
Will DD Updates wipe out my settings?
Can I update DD without losing my projection tweaks?
Printing out the Draft Dominator User's Manual
Adding additional positions to DD (i.e. Offensive Lines, Punters, Coaches, etc).
Using AVT instead of the built in projections
Projections Points and Player Pool Points not the same???
Using the DD with Team QB
Masking the Draft Dominator
Printing Cheatsheets with Player Notes

Explainations
Projection Weekly Weights
GameByGame Weekly Weights
SOS
Baselines
Baselines 2
Best Value Dropoff
Best Value Questions
QB Flex - Quick Method
Flex Calculations
IDP Flex Calculations
FAQ with multiple explainations
Finding Complementary Players

Keeper Leagues
Adding Keepers that don't count against draft picks

Auction Leagues
Calc Starts Top / Calc Starts Bot
Maurile Tremblay's New Auction Method
Maurile Tremblay's New Auction Method 2
Using your own Auction Values

Mock Drafting
Using the ADP_User.csv file for custom dropoffs
Draft Other Teams by ADP option
Customizing the ADP

Misc
Need help finding the Easter Egg...
Draft Log Template - Using Previous year's draft data
DD Lite
Running from a Flash Drive - UPDATED
Running from a CD-ROM or Flash Drive
Installing the DD to a Flash Drive
My Team Feature

Articles
Inside the Draft Dominator
Draft Dominator Preview
Leveraging DD
The Principles of VBD Revisited

The Draft Dominator also has a Frequently Asked Questions and User's Manual both available through the Help Menu.

If you see other topics that are helpful to you let me know, and I'll add them to this list. I see this as an ever expanding thing and should reduce the number of repeat questions. If anybody wants to volunteer to keep this list organized and up to date, let me know also.

I volunteered to help Bruce keep this updated. See the *new flag below for new topics that I have added.

How do you put in the yardage scoring for QBs, RBs and WRs?

Where do the points go? example for 1 point for every for yards passing, or 25 yards rushing and receiving. 0.0200??

Inside the Draft Dominator Section 1, Figure 2.

1 pt /25 yards = 0.04
1 pt/10 yards = 0.10

Joel

I'm sorta new to forums and all...so bear with me. I've poked around and couldn't find the answer to this question...if it's out there just direct me to the right place and I'll look it up....here's the question...I've got DD and LD...obviously LD is updated on a regular basis. I want to be able to take that updated file and place it into DD so that I can begin looking at keepers, salaries, needs, etc for our league teams next year.
In other words I'm wanting to begin doing some mock drafts, et al, with current NFL player ratings as reflected in Lineup Dominator. Make sense?

During the season, you can update the DD, by copying the Players.dat file from the LD subdirectory to the DD subdirectory. If you did it now, you would only get Week 16 data or Week 17 data.

The DD usually comes out around May each year. Keep an eye out for it, as well as the early bird special to get a jump on next year.

in years past you have been able to add a salary cap for each team. I'm in a dynasty league where there can be salary cap hit, so not all teams will be able to spend the full salary cap amount. is this feature already there, and if not is it going to be added back. In years past it has been under setup - team names.

I'll have to look and see what happen to it.

I am in a league that drafted last year and there have been multiple roster modifications. I would like to load the rosters in the draft dominator. Do you have to "fake" the draft? Or can you enter team by team the rosters?

You can do Team By Team if you Right Click on the Player and select the team from the popup menu.

If the players count against draft picks, I'd recommend adding them to the keeper list with the correct Round and Pick.

Why won't the DD update the player rankings. I feel pretty sure that Tom Brady is not the #4 QB behind a QB like Cambell.

I tried the update for latest projections and everything seems all screwed up. not single RB in the top 200

Make sure you enter a schedule (File - Setup - Schedule). If you don't know your schedule yet, enter Avg. Points for each week.

I am having an issue setting up my positions for my IDP.

I run a league with IDP through Yahoo. We start 4 DB's and 4 DL's, but the problem is that DL in Yahoo is a LB or a DL. How do I distinguish the two in set up?

I currently have it:

Defensive Backs - 4.00 Roster Spots - 10.00 (wasn't sure what to put here, you can have as many as you want on your bench)

LineBackers - 0..00 Roster Spots - 0.00 (I have the Flex Box Checked)

Defensive Linemen - 0..00 Roster Spots - 0.00 (I have the Flex Box Checked)

Flex IDP - 4.00 Roster Spots - 10.00 (wasn't sure what to put here, you can have as many as you want on your bench)


I have bench at 10.00 for all positions for the reason above (is this right too?)


Is this right? Any tricks?

After Keepers - Marion Barber #1... really? It is amazing how Larry Johnson has fell to the depths after being the question mark of who is #1 last year!

The way you have it should work. Typically I like to bring my rosters spots down to what people normally carry on their teams. If you step through the DD by clicking the Move Player button over and over... does it look ok?

It looks okay... but I never draft DL and only LB. I was just a little disturbed by doing my mock drafts that it picks the DL spots for me and some other guys in my league that only draft WSLB or MLB like me.

As long as it works correct during the draft next Saturday I will be fine.

Thanks!

Why are the rankings on the DD so much different from the site rankings? My league uses the standard scoring....no ppr...and the difference between the DD and the site rankings is huge.

Just a few examples...
SJax...8th
Brady...15
Moss...21

Does the draft dominator not use the collective rankings of the writers of this site?

Also, how do I run a mock using ADP instead of the DD rankings? Im getting Owens and/or Wayne at the end of the second round...thats not realistic anymore.

Thanks for your help!

The standard DD projections use just the projections of David Dodds. To get more balanced input, use the Projections Dominator and set the weighting of the 5 experts to 20% each. You can then import the PD rankings into DD.

For ADP, ensure that "Draft Other Teams by ADP" box is checked in the MISC section.

Thanks...Ill try that out!

Maybe Im slow...but I cant find a place to determine the weight of the 5 experts. I did it without determining the weight of the experts and it looks MUCH better. The only issue I have now is that SJax dropped to #10 overall. I have the 3rd pick and am debating between Westbrook, SJax, and Addai

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In PD, click on the + sign next to one of the positions and the list of players at that position will appear.
Click on any player and you'll notice some new boxes across the top.
Click on "Set Weights" and a grid will show up.
Enter the percentage of weighting you want applied to each expert.
Ensure the "Apply to Current Player Only" box is NOT checked if you want to apply it to all players.
Click on Apply Weights and then on Close.

Ensure you save the file.

Why do the IDP's in one of my leagues show odd (93.7, 122.3, 108.6, etc.) point totals, when all scoring is all in true numbers?

Do you have any weights set in the GameByGame window?

They are at 1.0 whatever that means

It's really not a big deal, it just looks strange to me and I was wondering why it is that way.

The DD shows one decimal place, so that you can decide between two players with 108 points for example. Instead of showing 108 for both players, it might be 108.7 for one and 108.2 for another...